Etymologies
- From the Greek λόγος (word, speech) + φίλος (friend, lover). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“All are agreed that he was both a logophile and a bibliophile as attested to by his love of etymology and neologistic wordplay, and the over 10,000 books in his personal library.”
Fictionaut: Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier)
“There probably isn't a better gift for a logophile or linguist than witticisms and wordplay - the clever kind or the chocolate version of such.”
“Now, as a logophile/word nerd of the highest order, I don't like to see any word, even offensive or derogatory ones, banned.”
“As a logophile, I also appreciate Shakespeare as a wordsmith.”
“How serendipitous is that, since I am both a blogophile and a logophile?”
“Definition logophile (noun): one who loves words; a word buff”
“I am a logophile, but I had to look up several of those, some just to confirm, but a couple I had never seen before!”
“I could happily list many favorite words, as I am a logophile.”
“Even if you are not a logophile (lover of words), you surely have your favorites.”
“It wont be a chore for every one of me in the world to mop them up. logophile: everything was cool. i didn't have my maiden name anywhere on FB, i only have 50”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘logophile’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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New words
new words or spelling issues
voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 241 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labile, lability, labret, lac, laches, lacis, laic, lam?, lar and 496 more...
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lovers
necrophile, xenophile, troglophile, extremophile, logophile, psychrophile, cryophile, mesophile, heliophile, lithophile, hydrophile, lipophile and 6 more...
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phile-lovin'
All that is loved - from sublime to macabre - in this world and beyond...
logophile, linguaphile, bibliophile, francophile, cinephile, ailurophile, audiophile, arctophile, xenophile, homophile, pogonophile, ecdysiophile and 5 more...
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Ideas for names for Logos
Logos wishes to re-name himself. Please suggest suitable names even though you do not know him.
rhema, orotone, humboldt, he, logof, snickersnee, countersign, logomacheator, logographer, flogo, the wordie former..., catalogos and 25 more...
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-PHILE Words
lover of the specified person or thing
acrophile, anglophile, arctophile, astrophile, audiophile, autophile, bibliophile, alcoholphile, cinephile, demophile, discophile, francophile and 22 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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jaradgiese's Words
paronomasia, ostensible, insouciant, sobriquet, burlesque, insalubrious, apotheosis, hyperbole, connubial, felicity, florid, conurbation and 642 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Worthy Wordie
words learnt from the Internet
unthink, meme, logophile, netiquette, onomatopoeia, singularity, oed, johnson's dictionary, man friday, lewis carroll, ontology, pro bono and 143 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for logophile.
Telofy For me the word of choice is commonly verbivore. Apr 25, 2010
sobriquet So soporiferous. Assuredly there is a more euphonious epithet for our exemplary assemblage. Aug 14, 2009
albertdunger logophile - collector of words Jun 4, 2009
ecbrenner "A lover of words." --Random House Dictionary
In other words, a Wordie! Mar 15, 2009